tilikum

It’s hard to find words when all you have are emotions. Sadness. Pain. Anger. Heartbreak. Some sort of bittersweet relief. Indignation. Tilikum was the catalyst behind the start of Blue Freedom. It was his plight that inspired our founder, Kate Emmons, to start a petition to release Tilikum to a sea pen that garnered more […]

This letter was courteously submitted to us by Haze, the founder of Tilikum&Co. Together, our petitions have garnered 100k signatures. Please visit the petitions here and here. Haze got her start as an animal advocate at an early age with her mother acting as the wildlife rescue in Florida where Haze grew up. Haze has continued […]

November 14 is here again – the day we use to bring awareness to Tilikum, the captive orca whale. But it’s been about six years since the first “Free Tilikum Protest Day” and Tilikum is still living in a pool at SeaWorld. Are all our efforts and cries for justice futile? We don’t think so. […]

Our message is simple: keeping a 12,000+ pound Orca whale in a pool, (that is less than a fraction of 1% of his natural habitat,) is simply illogical. “Extracting” an animal from his natural environment, where he would normally swim vast distances, dive to extreme depths and spend his entire life with his close knit […]

– What surprised you the most about the public reaction to Blackfish?I always suspected that people were like me, that they didn’t know the truth about SeaWorld and that we all patronized that place blindly. This turned out to be true. People were shocked by what they learned. And it’s life affirming to know that […]